DUST / Granular synthesis

A universe in every grain.

4.7 / 5 373 reviews

Scatter, shape, and surround yourself with sound. Explore granular synthesis through the world of DUST.

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DUST

$99.00

DUST is a binaural granular synthesizer that turns sound into motion.Create evolving textures, spatial movement, and entirely new sonic worlds — in real time.

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Compatibility at a glance

Formats: VST · VST3 · AU · AAXAU: macOS only
Supported systems: macOS 10.11+ · Windows 10+Multicore processor · 16 GB RAM
Apple Silicon: CompatibleUse the current Mac installer.
Demo limitations: Periodic white noisePreset saving disabled in demo mode.

Explore evolving granular textures, atmospheres, and experimental sound design.

Specifications at a glance

Minimum Requirements: An Intel® Mac with Mac OS X 10.11 (or later), OR a PC with Windows 10 (or later); Multicore processor; 16 GB RAM.

DUST is Apple Silicon supported and compatible. (M1-M4).

Customer review

“Insanely fun and unique plugin for making those hard to create background atmospheres…”

David W.Verified buyerDUSTRead all reviews

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"DUST opens up a world of new sonic possibilities, granulating them beautifully like never before. Amazing!" - Richard Devine (Apple - Senior Content Producer, Pro Musician)

DUST – Binaural Granular Synthesiser

DUST is not just another soft‑synth; it’s a binaural granular soundscape generator built on a real‑time particle simulation. Instead of oscillators or wavetables, each particle is a miniature granulator that takes a slice of audio and sends it swirling through a physics‑driven 2D space . The result is a living sound field where grains move, collide, orbit and dissipate, producing richly textured drones, evolving pads, whooshing effects and rhythmic clouds that would be impossible with traditional tools.

Key Features

Eight granular emitters – colour‑coded circles along the top row of the interface let you deploy up to eight independent emitters. Each emitter shoots grains in the direction of its “stalk,” and can be aimed manually or via X/Y/Angle controls . Emitters can trigger continuously via a step sequencer (up to 64 steps), respond to MIDI notes in a specific range or follow a sequenced pattern only while a note is held .
Binaural spatialisation – particles fly through a flow‑field that defines the stereo (and front‑back) position of each grain. Up/down correspond to front/back in the sound field, giving true binaural placement .
Customisable flow field – DUST’s physics engine isn’t fixed. You can choose from built‑in equations (e.g., spirals, inward flow) or write your own to alter how particles move . Effectors – virtual magnets placed in the field – can attract or repel particles with adjustable strength and fall‑off .
Convolution reverb – a built‑in convolver lets you load any impulse response (cave, pipe, leaves, etc.) for unique reverbs
Extensive modulation – right‑click any dial to assign LFOs, step sequencers, MIDI control or particle‑property‑based modulation (e.g., modulate filter cutoff by particle distance from centre) .
Rich sound library and presets – DUST includes over 60 sounds and factory presets by renowned sound designers Richard Devine, Ivo Ivanov and others . You can also drag‑and‑drop your own samples into any emitter .
Binaural panning & convolution FX version – use DUST as a synthesiser or as an effect plug‑in to granularise and spatialise incoming audio; available in VST, VST3, AAX and AU formats .
Cross‑platform support – works on Mac and PC (32‑bit and 64‑bit)..

Why DUST?
Most granular instruments slice audio into clouds that sit statically in the stereo field. DUST treats those clouds as living objects. The eight emitters fire grains into a dynamic flow, and effectors push or pull them in real time. According to Audio Plugin Guy, this makes DUST “fantastic… for sound design involving any sort of directional character,” enabling whooshes that move across the field or drones that orbit the listener . Evolving atmospheres, pads and transitions come naturally: DUST can handle ear‑candy, glitches, moving soundscapes or rhythmic granulated hits locked to your DAW’s tempo . MusicRadar praised its “remarkably flexible sound design” and “inventive way to create living textures” . Andrulian’s review noted that DUST “transcends the possibilities typically offered by VSTs,” offering both quick results and deep sonic control

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DUST Tutorial

A quick walkthrough of DUST’s core workflow, from loading samples to shaping particles, building movement, and creating evolving soundscapes in real time.

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Reviews & Testimonials

“Remarkably flexible sound design… inventive living textures” – MusicRadar concluded that DUST’s granular approach offers abundant samples and presets, and praised its creative flexibility.

“Granular spatial playground… swirling, zooming and whooshing sounds and soundscapes from nearly any audio source” – Audio Plugin Guy highlighted DUST’s ability to transform any sound into dynamic, moving textures .

“Phenomenal software… full control and virtually unlimited sound sculpting possibilities” – Andrulian’s review emphasised DUST’s inspiring interface and noted that users can get to grips quickly yet have deep control.

Customer review

“Great to create strange things!”

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Specifications & compatibility

Key Features

- Apple Silicon compatible.
- New Ui Re-design
- New screen resizing options
- Added "Copy to all emitters" button
- Presets by Richard Divine
- Presets by Ivo Ivanov
- Presets by Robert Clouth
- Presets by Yan David
- 8 particle emitters
- Convolution reverb
- Binaural Audio Panning
- Save and recall presets
- Custom Flow Field equations
- over 60 sounds included
- Import your own sound samples
- 4 modulation options on parameters
- FX Version now included!
- VST3, AAX & Audio Unit format
- Mac and PC (32 bit and 64 bit)

System Requirements

Minimum Requirements: An Intel® Mac with Mac OS X 10.11 (or later), OR a PC with Windows 10 (or later); Multicore processor; 16 GB RAM.

DUST is Apple Silicon supported and compatible. (M1-M4).

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"With a dazzling approach to granular sound manipulation, DUST opens up unusual pathways to weird and wonderful textures. With an astounding level of control, DUST is an enthralling prospect for sound designers and is useful for broader applications too."
— Computer Music (May 2021 issue)

"DUST opens up a world of new sonic possibilities, granulating
them beautifully like never before. Amazing!"
— Richard Devine (Apple - Senior Content Producer, Pro Musician)

"DUST comes with a huge sample library that can be massaged in almost infinite ways using the granular parameters, you're never going to get typecast using DUST and while it works brilliantly for creating sci-fi or horror film soundbeds, it also produces some lovely textures that can be sprinkled into compositions or mixed with existing synth sounds to give them a sort of Wavestation complexity. In addition it is a sound designer's dream and can work magic on external sound sources."
— Sound on Sound (December 2020 issue)

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5 stars: 299 (80%)
4 stars: 55 (15%)
3 stars: 13 (3%)
2 stars: 4 (1%)
1 star: 2 (1%)

Per il costo aperavo un synth migliore piu intuitivo e pwrformante. Davvero overpriced

Great synth that mooves aroun

Great synth that mooves around, and offers a loads of great sounds and options!

Dust is a very creative instrument

Dust is a very creative instrument with endless posibilities to create wonderfull and werd sounds.
A must have for the sound designers among us.

Great Synthesizer/ Plugin

Great Synthesizer/ Plugin.

nicesounds

nice sounds

One of the best software currently available for sound design

One of the best software currently available for sound design.

old sound, new life and visions

Brings old sounds to life when I add this to my sounds to take it to a whole new level

Dust Buster.

Insanely fun and unique plugin for making those hard to create background atmospheres with plenty of scope for happy little accidents.

Complicated for beginners

Out of the box this has some great presets, but it is highly customisable and could probably use some more basic instruction videos online.

Making a preset is a project in itself!

Great to create strange

Great to create strange things!

Powerfull for

Powerfull for ambient

really good quality

really good quality, lots of versatility, and easy to understand from the beginning

A fantastic and unique plugin for creatives

A fantastic and unique plugin for creatives, a tool to shape infinite ideas, I can stay there for hours!

Pretty

Pretty good

Texture Swirly Machine

It is very nice for textures and I found some good use it even in my production which lean more towards JazzyBeats

I was surprised…

I was surprised that something was such a small price tag. I could be so useful. But it is. I highly recommend it to anyone seeking something different and useful.

Sound Design Gold

Powerful plugin that offers an array of sound design capabilities that is solid gold!

Great tool for sound design! Intuitive and easy

Great tool for sound design! Intuitive and easy use!

great fun but....

Really enjoying it and exploring. The only downside to the beautiful interface and graphics is that it rather GPU hungry and this means lock ups in my DAW (Live 12)., This meant keeping the interface open and knob twiddling was a bit of trial and error or, with the help of Grok AI some settings changing. I've upgraded the GPU now and will see how that helps.
Maybe a switch in the plugin to turn off the graphics would help.

Very interesting plugin

Very interesting plugin. I will definitely use this in my music productions.

One of a kind

One of a kind.

It's a great tool for experimenting with and creating new sound design layers

It's a great tool for experimenting with and creating new sound design layers. However, there are currently some technical issues, but I hope they will be fixed soon.

An amazing creative tool

An amazing creative tool. I've just skimmed the surface so far but it seems a very powerful tool if you like to sonically mangle your sounds, which I do.

DUST IS WAY COOL AND TONS OF FUN!

DUST IS WAY COOL AND TONS OF FUN. GREAT ADDITION TO MY GROWING SOUNDMORPH LIBRARY COLLECTION!

best

best

Creating immersive sonic fields comes easy

Dust is a nice environment for creating immersive, living soundscapes, kinetic & engaging sound fx, and even mesmerizing musical beds. I wish there were more included impulse responses just to offer a few more enlightening examples (you can load any audio file you wish). It's greatest shortcoming to me is that it doesn't re-pitch samples according to the midi notes you play (you can use midi note info to affect other parameters). I feel I would find Dust a lot more useful in performance or creation if loaded samples were re-pitched according to midi note. (i know, "so traditional" but...) There's something that really bothers me about hearing the same note no matter what key I press - it sort of takes away the magic of hearing a sound re-pitched in a pure way, without having to dig into mapping parameters. Might be nice to have the initial length of a grain equal to the length of a loaded sample, and for playback to start at the beginning. Let me orientate myself first to the sample I loaded, and then I can start molding it into something kinetic and alive.

Very cool and unique instrument

Very cool and unique instrument. The one thing I'm really missing there is an option to set up doppler effect for each emitter. That would make the flybys so much more realistic.

Enable note input via MIDI

“DUST” is a very unique synthesizer, and I think it's an interesting instrument, but since it's a “synthesizer,” I really wish it allowed me to play notes using a MIDI keyboard. That's the only thing I found disappointing.

So much Fun

So much fun

Magical

It is incredible what dust is able to produce with a little tweaking.

so easy

so easy to use and yet so powerful

A universe in every grain.

DUST

A Secret Library. Yours free.

Last year’s surprise was Spark.

This year is still under wraps.

Compatibility at a glance

Hear the particles move.

Hear DUST in action.

Surround Yourself With Sound Particles

DUST – Binaural Granular Synthesiser

Key Features

DUST Tutorial

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Reviews & Testimonials

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